Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:
BIRT), The BIRT Company™ – delivering more insights to more people than
all BI companies combined, announced today the results of their jointly
sponsored Faculty Development Program (FDP) on data warehousing and
business intelligence (BI). With co-sponsors COMPEGENCE
and Infosys
E&R, the unique training program has resulted in increased
understanding and enthusiasm from students who are the BI professionals
of the future. The program is taking traditional business intelligence
education to the next level with workshops for professors and scholars,
bringing business intelligence to life through hands-on learning and
practice.

Reporting on the differences made by the FDP program, Professor Sejal
Nimbhalkar, of T John Institute of Technology, Bangalore, has initiated
a pilot project in teaching BI with Actuate, and students are
enthusiastic and satisfied with the tool. Professor Shrikanth Athnikar,
KLE DR. M.S., of Sheshagiri College of Engineering and Technology,
Belgaum, reports that the College has trained ten of its selected
students, and they are planning to incorporate Actuate for reporting
projects. And one of the Colleges at BMS College of Engineering has sent
a proposal to the University to include this subject as covered in the
workshop as part of Curriculum from the next academic session.

“With the FDP hands-on sessions, we gained confidence and inspiration to
take business intelligence learnings to our students,” said Sunitha
Watts, Faculty of CITI College, Bangalore. “Compared to other tools we
have seen, Actuate is simpler and more user-friendly.”

Addressing the motivation behind sponsoring the program, Nobby Akiha,
Senior Vice President of Marketing, Actuate, said, “The ability to
inspire the world’s future business intelligence leaders to garner the
appropriate skills and capabilities to manage business analytics starts
with enhancing the training they receive at university. The key is to
educate students and help them understand that, in today’s global
workplace, business users as well as data engineers have much higher
expectations of how easily and how fast business analytics technology
can deliver insights to drive business improvement.”

The Faculty Development Program enables the provision of interactive
training to the faculty through relevant case studies, videos, and
brainstorm sessions. Through the faculty in attendance, FDP aims to
educate and transfer knowledge to university students on the importance
of strategic data management as well as tactical usage of business
intelligence. An integral part of the program involves teaching faculty
members how to translate FDP learnings into semester-long, in-classroom
sessions – including strategic faculty follow-up plans.

Actuate founded and co-leads the BIRT
open source project, which is used by over 1.5 million developers
around the globe and serves as the foundation of the ActuateOne®
platform. Applications built on ActuateOne deliver more business and
consumer insights to more people than all BI companies combined -
ensuring organizations are ready for the exponential growth of Big Data
and the proliferation of touch devices.

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